1 00:00:10,010 --> 00:00:11,469 [Happy] Previously... 2 00:00:11,553 --> 00:00:16,808 Nick Sax, NYPD... ish. I'm trying to locate a man. Looks like Santa Claus. 3 00:00:16,891 --> 00:00:19,436 -This password. -I'm the only one who... 4 00:00:19,519 --> 00:00:20,854 -Knows it... -Which is why... 5 00:00:20,937 --> 00:00:22,105 You got to get dead. 6 00:00:23,523 --> 00:00:26,234 -You're trying to kill me! -We're gonna kill you! 7 00:00:28,278 --> 00:00:31,114 -What do you want? -[Blue] You know. How is your ma? 8 00:00:31,197 --> 00:00:35,243 -She been taking her medication? -I've got a whole new way into Nick Sax. 9 00:00:35,326 --> 00:00:41,499 You have an enemy in your house. This is the one who killed your three sons. 10 00:00:41,583 --> 00:00:42,959 Three? There's four. 11 00:00:43,042 --> 00:00:45,628 [Assunta] Mikey is not with them. 12 00:00:45,712 --> 00:00:48,465 [Mr. Bug] Your guy, Mr. Ho-Ho-Ho... 13 00:00:48,548 --> 00:00:51,676 [Blue] He's under orders to stay with the children. 14 00:00:51,760 --> 00:00:53,428 -Smoothie. -[Blue] Bug's upset. 15 00:00:53,511 --> 00:00:55,263 I need you to do a scrub down. 16 00:00:55,346 --> 00:00:57,557 This is it, Nick! The dark room! 17 00:00:58,391 --> 00:01:01,811 [Hailey] Happy and my dad are coming. They're going to save us. 18 00:01:01,895 --> 00:01:04,481 How will they find us now? 19 00:01:16,743 --> 00:01:19,037 -What are you doing here? -Working a case. 20 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:21,790 -This ain't homicide! -It's a favor for a friend. 21 00:01:23,249 --> 00:01:24,209 For Amanda. 22 00:01:25,251 --> 00:01:27,045 Bullshit! She hates your guts. 23 00:01:27,128 --> 00:01:30,089 -She'd never come to you. -She does hate my guts 24 00:01:30,173 --> 00:01:34,385 and for all the right reasons, but she loves her daughter. She loves Hailey. 25 00:01:34,469 --> 00:01:36,471 [Sax breathes heavily] 26 00:01:39,557 --> 00:01:42,227 -Why didn't she come to me? -She tried. 27 00:01:47,273 --> 00:01:53,113 Let's go, Sax. We can work the case... together. 28 00:01:55,615 --> 00:01:57,242 Just like old times. 29 00:02:01,955 --> 00:02:06,209 Well, well, well, you had me right up to old times. Let's try this again. 30 00:02:06,292 --> 00:02:07,919 What's your angle? 31 00:02:08,002 --> 00:02:09,129 [gun clicks] 32 00:02:09,838 --> 00:02:13,133 [sighs] Mer, so predictable. 33 00:02:14,092 --> 00:02:15,718 You got to go see Blue, Nick. 34 00:02:16,261 --> 00:02:18,847 He's really got you by the short and curlies. 35 00:02:25,937 --> 00:02:27,021 Ow. 36 00:02:29,357 --> 00:02:30,817 [squelching] 37 00:02:32,485 --> 00:02:33,820 [grunts] 38 00:02:33,903 --> 00:02:36,573 Happy, let's split. 39 00:02:37,365 --> 00:02:39,367 [Happy sobs softly] 40 00:02:44,622 --> 00:02:46,624 [sobs softly] 41 00:02:47,876 --> 00:02:51,045 This was hers... Hailey's. 42 00:02:53,923 --> 00:02:56,301 Come on. Let's go find her. 43 00:03:05,476 --> 00:03:06,811 Why are you touching me? 44 00:03:06,895 --> 00:03:09,480 -I've been waiting. -I'm not in the mood... 45 00:03:09,564 --> 00:03:11,941 -What the fuck is that? -Cherry vape. 46 00:03:12,025 --> 00:03:16,029 I'm quitting the old nic sticks. I was getting lines around my mouth. 47 00:03:17,363 --> 00:03:21,326 Let's be real, hombre to hombre. 48 00:03:21,409 --> 00:03:24,078 I get it. You hate the show. 49 00:03:24,162 --> 00:03:28,291 But I just came from the morgue and this dead-son story is heating up. 50 00:03:28,374 --> 00:03:33,004 And, bro, you are a big part of it. I am talking recurring guest. 51 00:03:33,087 --> 00:03:38,509 I'm talking spin-off. Just, uh, sign this release 52 00:03:38,593 --> 00:03:41,179 and you can leave all that mobster crap behind. 53 00:03:42,889 --> 00:03:44,891 That... crap? 54 00:03:46,809 --> 00:03:50,438 Cameras aren't rolling, dude. Celebrities are the new mobsters. 55 00:03:50,521 --> 00:03:54,359 They make twice as much and nobody expects them to obey the law. 56 00:03:54,442 --> 00:03:56,819 You got to give up this tired old idea of... 57 00:03:58,196 --> 00:03:59,239 [gasps] 58 00:04:01,074 --> 00:04:02,492 [whimpers] 59 00:04:03,993 --> 00:04:06,120 Why would I want to leave this behind? 60 00:04:10,291 --> 00:04:11,501 I love my work. 61 00:04:12,877 --> 00:04:13,878 [sobs softly] 62 00:04:16,839 --> 00:04:19,217 [screams] 63 00:04:24,472 --> 00:04:27,100 [music: Frosty the Snowman by the Ronettes] 64 00:04:59,424 --> 00:05:00,842 [chuckles] 65 00:05:03,344 --> 00:05:04,762 Merry McCarthy. 66 00:05:06,472 --> 00:05:11,269 This isn't where you're supposed to be. Blue isn't going to be happy. 67 00:05:17,191 --> 00:05:24,157 Don't you know... that curiosity killed the cat? 68 00:05:26,951 --> 00:05:29,912 Here, pussy, pussy, pussy, pussy, pussy. 69 00:05:31,539 --> 00:05:32,540 [tires screech] 70 00:05:33,666 --> 00:05:35,168 [engine putts and stops] 71 00:05:35,251 --> 00:05:36,586 [Chris] Why'd we stop? 72 00:05:36,669 --> 00:05:39,255 [door opens and closes] 73 00:05:40,256 --> 00:05:42,633 [banging] 74 00:05:51,392 --> 00:05:55,313 Come, Dancer. Come. Come on. 75 00:05:56,939 --> 00:06:01,486 Come, Dasher, yes. Come, Prancer and Vixen. [laughs] 76 00:06:01,569 --> 00:06:04,739 On Comet and Cupid and Donner and... 77 00:06:10,995 --> 00:06:15,875 I know who's naughty and who's nice and you are way too nice to go in there. 78 00:06:15,958 --> 00:06:20,421 [pants] You want to stay with me, don't you, with my other nice kids? You want? 79 00:06:43,402 --> 00:06:44,654 [door bangs] 80 00:07:36,289 --> 00:07:40,293 [Happy] 6538 Rose Drive! 6536 Rose Drive! 81 00:07:40,376 --> 00:07:43,212 Oh, look! 6534! We're almost home! 82 00:07:43,963 --> 00:07:45,214 You're almost home. 83 00:07:46,924 --> 00:07:48,885 I haven't seen Amanda in ten years. 84 00:07:51,971 --> 00:07:53,556 Maybe this is a bad idea. 85 00:07:54,182 --> 00:07:57,643 We've been to a place where girls slide up and down poles 86 00:07:57,727 --> 00:08:01,314 in their birthday suits, where a teddy bear plays with pee-pees, 87 00:08:01,397 --> 00:08:04,400 a restaurant that forgot to cook the fish and a few places 88 00:08:04,484 --> 00:08:08,988 I'm too shy to even talk about and you think this is a bad idea? 89 00:08:09,572 --> 00:08:13,743 Amanda and I didn't exactly leave on the best of terms. 90 00:08:13,826 --> 00:08:18,247 Come on, Nick! You're a super cop who knows the Big Apple better than anybody. 91 00:08:18,331 --> 00:08:21,959 She's a super mom who knows Hailey better than anybody. 92 00:08:22,043 --> 00:08:23,628 We can't lose! 93 00:08:26,088 --> 00:08:29,675 Push it. Push the bell! Come on. Push it, Nick. Push the bell! 94 00:08:29,759 --> 00:08:31,260 Give me a minute, will you? 95 00:08:32,094 --> 00:08:33,721 What's the matter, Nick? 96 00:08:36,182 --> 00:08:39,352 I've seen this look before, on Hailey's face, 97 00:08:39,435 --> 00:08:42,522 right before riding the pirate ship at the carnival. 98 00:08:42,605 --> 00:08:46,526 -Are... are you scared? -God, I hate you. 99 00:08:47,109 --> 00:08:48,611 Oh, you are. 100 00:08:48,694 --> 00:08:52,782 Okay, you've kicked in the doors of the baddest baddies in the Big Apple. 101 00:08:52,865 --> 00:08:56,953 Quit calling it that. No one who lives in New York calls it the Big Apple. 102 00:08:57,036 --> 00:08:58,621 I'm not from New York, Nick. 103 00:08:58,704 --> 00:09:01,499 I'm from Zork, the capital of Cupcake Kingdom. 104 00:09:02,250 --> 00:09:06,671 -I'm going to say it again, I hate you. -Okay, Amanda is the kindest, 105 00:09:06,754 --> 00:09:09,757 happiest, most understanding, sweetest-smelling lady... 106 00:09:09,840 --> 00:09:12,051 -Fine. -...in the whole wide world. 107 00:09:13,594 --> 00:09:15,179 -Amanda! -Shh! 108 00:09:18,474 --> 00:09:22,311 Don't worry, partner. She's going to be so happy to see you. 109 00:09:27,191 --> 00:09:28,276 Hey, Amanda. 110 00:09:33,072 --> 00:09:35,283 Any more bold predictions, Nostradamus? 111 00:10:04,020 --> 00:10:05,646 Does it work? 112 00:10:16,407 --> 00:10:18,200 [rattle of wheels] 113 00:11:01,285 --> 00:11:04,914 [Smoothie] Sit up straight. Eat your vegetables. 114 00:11:05,498 --> 00:11:08,167 Put down that smartphone or tablet. 115 00:11:08,250 --> 00:11:11,212 The common refrain of the typical American parent. 116 00:11:11,295 --> 00:11:13,714 Does it sound familiar to you? 117 00:11:16,217 --> 00:11:17,551 No. 118 00:11:19,095 --> 00:11:20,346 Of course it does. 119 00:11:22,056 --> 00:11:27,603 But did you listen? No, you didn't. And now here we are. 120 00:11:28,562 --> 00:11:32,608 Starting today, your lives will change in ways you could never imagine. 121 00:11:33,109 --> 00:11:36,821 There will be moments when you wonder what you have done to deserve this. 122 00:11:38,072 --> 00:11:41,659 I'm sure you all feel you've been good little boys and girls, 123 00:11:41,742 --> 00:11:44,328 but until now, you have not known the meaning 124 00:11:44,412 --> 00:11:47,706 of true discipline... of true obedience. 125 00:11:48,582 --> 00:11:53,295 Your parents were lax with you, lax and careless. 126 00:11:54,046 --> 00:11:57,216 You have gotten away with murder, haven't you, 127 00:11:57,299 --> 00:11:59,635 my little contraceptive mishaps? 128 00:12:01,762 --> 00:12:03,556 It's a rhetorical question. 129 00:12:04,515 --> 00:12:08,644 Yours is a generation without respect or responsibility... 130 00:12:09,228 --> 00:12:12,398 ...an irrelevant, fidgety generation. 131 00:12:12,898 --> 00:12:17,403 You've been medicated, but never taught how to properly behave. 132 00:12:18,154 --> 00:12:21,490 In fact, I have never seen a room of young faces 133 00:12:21,574 --> 00:12:23,784 in such dire need of correction. 134 00:12:24,952 --> 00:12:31,000 Perhaps that's why your careless parents have delivered you... to me. 135 00:12:31,083 --> 00:12:32,334 [screams] 136 00:12:33,752 --> 00:12:38,841 That's a really nice pillow... and place. 137 00:12:38,924 --> 00:12:41,510 I mean, this is some legit construction here. 138 00:12:41,594 --> 00:12:44,472 Old school, nice flooring and the oak trim, 139 00:12:44,555 --> 00:12:48,058 I mean, uh, it's not that sheetrock, plywood crap. 140 00:12:48,601 --> 00:12:51,270 Bet it does a decent job keeping the winter away. 141 00:12:51,353 --> 00:12:53,647 -I'm not a homesteader, Nick. -I know. 142 00:12:53,731 --> 00:12:59,653 -It's a rental. -Yeah, just saying that you've done good. 143 00:13:00,237 --> 00:13:01,363 Without you. 144 00:13:07,244 --> 00:13:09,079 [sighs] Words are hard to find. 145 00:13:12,249 --> 00:13:14,627 Trying to understand what's yours, what's mine, 146 00:13:14,710 --> 00:13:17,671 we find ourselves in this moment together. 147 00:13:17,755 --> 00:13:23,594 [inhales] Knowing in our heart what needs to be said is really just in our eyes. 148 00:13:25,054 --> 00:13:27,264 -You are unbelievable. -What? 149 00:13:27,890 --> 00:13:30,392 -That's from our wedding song. -I don't... 150 00:13:32,561 --> 00:13:35,564 It's... I don't think so. 151 00:13:35,648 --> 00:13:36,774 Why are you here? 152 00:13:40,110 --> 00:13:43,155 -Hailey. -Merry told you. 153 00:14:02,925 --> 00:14:04,093 From September. 154 00:14:08,889 --> 00:14:11,767 -She doesn't look like me. -She's yours. 155 00:14:13,477 --> 00:14:14,853 That's not what I meant. 156 00:14:17,940 --> 00:14:18,899 The eyes. 157 00:14:23,654 --> 00:14:25,865 [inhales and grunts] 158 00:14:27,491 --> 00:14:30,953 You being pregnant and not telling me? You know, I get it. 159 00:14:32,621 --> 00:14:35,791 Hailey being born, leaving me out of it, I... 160 00:14:35,875 --> 00:14:38,127 I... I guess I get that, too. 161 00:14:39,628 --> 00:14:44,300 But goddamn it, Amanda, when they took her, you go to Merry? 162 00:14:46,594 --> 00:14:52,016 That's right, I did, looking for you. 163 00:14:52,099 --> 00:14:55,144 Can you imagine how humiliating that was for me? 164 00:14:55,978 --> 00:14:56,979 [grunts] 165 00:14:57,521 --> 00:15:01,108 And where were you? Faded, probably. 166 00:15:02,401 --> 00:15:03,861 -Pills? -Uh... 167 00:15:03,944 --> 00:15:05,112 -Coke? -I don't... 168 00:15:05,195 --> 00:15:07,114 Booze? Maybe all of the above. 169 00:15:08,240 --> 00:15:13,704 Or maybe, just maybe, putting a bullet in some poor bastard for a little cash. 170 00:15:14,914 --> 00:15:19,001 That's right. I hear things, things that I didn't want to believe, 171 00:15:19,084 --> 00:15:20,586 but looking at you now... 172 00:15:22,630 --> 00:15:24,131 She's my daughter. 173 00:15:26,675 --> 00:15:30,679 I've done everything I could in the last ten years 174 00:15:30,763 --> 00:15:33,390 to keep her from being your daughter. 175 00:15:53,327 --> 00:15:57,456 -[Amanda] That's how I want to keep it. -[Sax] She didn't have a say in it. 176 00:15:57,539 --> 00:16:00,084 -It's my job to keep her safe. -[Sax] Says who? 177 00:16:00,167 --> 00:16:05,464 -That means keeping you out of our lives. -[Sax] But she's not safe. 178 00:16:05,547 --> 00:16:09,635 [Amanda] Oh, is that my fault? Is that why you're saying now? 179 00:16:09,718 --> 00:16:14,807 Think about it, Nicky. Look at the dumpster fire that your life has become 180 00:16:14,890 --> 00:16:18,394 and ask yourself how can I rely on you, how can anyone could. 181 00:16:18,477 --> 00:16:20,688 [Sax] I'm just trying to protect her. 182 00:16:20,771 --> 00:16:25,359 [Amanda] That's what you think? Destroying lives and abandoning people? 183 00:16:25,442 --> 00:16:29,863 All you do is bring chaos and violence and destruction to everything you touch. 184 00:16:29,947 --> 00:16:31,782 That's a bit of an exaggeration. 185 00:16:35,160 --> 00:16:36,203 [grunts] 186 00:16:36,286 --> 00:16:39,289 [music: Sleigh Ride by the Ronettes] 187 00:16:40,791 --> 00:16:43,502 [grunts and groans] 188 00:16:53,554 --> 00:16:55,681 [squelching] 189 00:16:57,391 --> 00:16:58,851 [yelling] 190 00:17:25,377 --> 00:17:28,130 [Amanda screams and man groans] 191 00:17:43,020 --> 00:17:44,229 [yells] 192 00:17:45,814 --> 00:17:47,316 [grunts and groans] 193 00:17:51,070 --> 00:17:52,696 [Amanda screams and yells] 194 00:18:04,083 --> 00:18:06,293 Ax and you shall receive. 195 00:18:08,295 --> 00:18:09,505 [groans] 196 00:18:24,394 --> 00:18:27,564 -[sighs] What the hell did I do that for? -[grunting] 197 00:18:27,648 --> 00:18:31,735 No! No! Nick! Not here, please! 198 00:18:32,611 --> 00:18:33,695 [grunts] 199 00:18:34,571 --> 00:18:36,615 This is Hailey's special place. 200 00:18:39,576 --> 00:18:43,247 No! Not Hailey's blankey! 201 00:18:44,039 --> 00:18:45,624 [roars and groans] 202 00:18:46,375 --> 00:18:47,292 [squelching] 203 00:18:47,376 --> 00:18:49,336 [grunts] 204 00:19:02,766 --> 00:19:04,101 Oh, first place. 205 00:19:04,184 --> 00:19:06,270 [pants] 206 00:19:07,020 --> 00:19:10,274 I know this Puerto Rican fella in my building. 207 00:19:10,357 --> 00:19:14,111 He can really do wonders with all the stains. 208 00:19:14,194 --> 00:19:16,864 -Get out. -Let me help, Amanda. 209 00:19:18,115 --> 00:19:21,827 -[man] 911. What's your emergency? -Please, let me help. 210 00:19:24,496 --> 00:19:26,081 -[man] Hello? -Please. 211 00:19:26,165 --> 00:19:29,418 -Get out of our house. -Hello? Is anyone there? 212 00:19:29,501 --> 00:19:32,671 If this is a non-emergency, call the non-emergency number. 213 00:19:33,672 --> 00:19:34,965 What's the location? 214 00:19:37,092 --> 00:19:38,135 Is anyone there? 215 00:19:38,218 --> 00:19:39,219 [bleeping] 216 00:19:46,185 --> 00:19:47,227 [sighs] 217 00:19:47,311 --> 00:19:48,812 [door closes] 218 00:20:05,996 --> 00:20:08,123 [Amanda] How the hell did this happen? 219 00:20:10,542 --> 00:20:13,170 Oh, I remember a trampoline. 220 00:20:15,505 --> 00:20:17,132 [both groan softly] 221 00:20:17,216 --> 00:20:19,259 [Amanda] Was there a Slip 'N Slide? 222 00:20:21,595 --> 00:20:23,013 [sighs] 223 00:20:23,096 --> 00:20:25,933 [Sax pants and Amanda groans] 224 00:20:26,016 --> 00:20:29,478 Too much sun, too soon, too early, too much. [inhales] 225 00:20:29,561 --> 00:20:30,979 Mm. Something's burning. 226 00:20:35,943 --> 00:20:37,444 Someone broke our window. 227 00:20:39,112 --> 00:20:42,282 [grunts] 228 00:20:45,244 --> 00:20:47,371 I think I know what broke our window. 229 00:20:50,332 --> 00:20:54,628 Oh, master detective. 230 00:20:54,711 --> 00:20:59,383 I have a great idea. Sleep, Bloodies, do it all over again. 231 00:20:59,466 --> 00:21:05,847 Mm. Sleep, yes. Bloodies... maybe. 232 00:21:06,807 --> 00:21:11,103 -We're going to look back fondly on... -On a complete blank. 233 00:21:11,186 --> 00:21:12,187 [Sax chuckles] 234 00:21:16,775 --> 00:21:19,278 You're going to miss it when it's gone. 235 00:22:14,666 --> 00:22:15,667 [phone bleeps] 236 00:22:27,554 --> 00:22:31,475 -Eight voicemails? Overkill? -You're here, aren't you? 237 00:22:31,558 --> 00:22:34,102 Pick up the phone next time, save us trouble. 238 00:22:34,186 --> 00:22:38,148 -I was indisposed. -Yeah. We heard. 239 00:22:38,231 --> 00:22:41,401 I get that getting jerked around by Internal Affairs 240 00:22:41,485 --> 00:22:43,278 is a part of my job description, 241 00:22:43,361 --> 00:22:46,573 -but can we get to the fucking point? -[whistles] The language. 242 00:22:46,656 --> 00:22:50,952 -Suck your captain's dick with that mouth? -What do you think your job is? 243 00:22:51,953 --> 00:22:55,832 "Working in partnership with the community to enforce the law..." 244 00:22:55,916 --> 00:22:59,086 Homicide. You work homicide. 245 00:22:59,169 --> 00:23:02,631 -How's the Scaramucci investigation going? -It's ongoing. 246 00:23:02,714 --> 00:23:04,758 Ongoing? You know who fucking did it. 247 00:23:04,841 --> 00:23:07,135 -Nick Sax. -That's who you look for. 248 00:23:07,219 --> 00:23:10,138 Instead you demoted yourself to kiddie kidnappings. 249 00:23:10,222 --> 00:23:14,142 Missing Persons, great band in the '80s, not your department. 250 00:23:17,813 --> 00:23:19,064 Nothing to say? 251 00:23:19,648 --> 00:23:22,526 What are words for, when no one listens anymore? 252 00:23:27,280 --> 00:23:34,037 McCarthy... this insubordinate routine can work really badly against you. 253 00:23:34,121 --> 00:23:36,873 -You remember what happened to Sax? -Yeah. 254 00:23:37,541 --> 00:23:39,584 I remember what you two did to him. 255 00:23:39,668 --> 00:23:43,755 Come on. If ever there was an architect of his own demise, it was Nick Sax. 256 00:23:43,839 --> 00:23:47,300 -Dude was a walking downward spiral. -Only a matter of time. 257 00:23:47,884 --> 00:23:50,095 I guess when you look at it like that, 258 00:23:50,178 --> 00:23:53,265 what's a little planted evidence to help things along? 259 00:23:55,725 --> 00:23:58,895 You want us to get to the fucking point? So, here it is. 260 00:23:59,896 --> 00:24:05,485 This whole kidnapping angle... you want to steer wide clear of that. 261 00:24:06,069 --> 00:24:07,863 Sometimes kids go missing. 262 00:24:08,697 --> 00:24:10,073 It's a tragedy. 263 00:24:10,907 --> 00:24:12,325 Sometimes we find them. 264 00:24:12,409 --> 00:24:14,202 Sometimes we don't. 265 00:24:15,245 --> 00:24:19,749 You understand, McCarthy? Sometimes they just stay missing. 266 00:24:27,215 --> 00:24:28,842 So, this is a message... 267 00:24:29,926 --> 00:24:31,261 ...from Blue? 268 00:24:31,845 --> 00:24:36,016 Blue? Who's that? You know who she's talking about, Hubble? 269 00:24:36,099 --> 00:24:37,058 Mm. 270 00:24:38,185 --> 00:24:42,314 Without getting too graphic, how the hell do you bitches sleep at night? 271 00:24:43,148 --> 00:24:44,941 Not on our fathers' graves. 272 00:24:47,402 --> 00:24:50,864 That is him on the wall, isn't it? Behind you? 273 00:24:50,947 --> 00:24:53,825 -[Ace] Wall of heroes. -He was a good cop, McCarthy. 274 00:24:53,909 --> 00:24:57,662 Anyway, that's what I hear. Cut down in the line of duty. 275 00:24:57,746 --> 00:24:59,873 Mm, makes you sick, doesn't it? 276 00:24:59,956 --> 00:25:03,793 -[Ace ] He must've been so proud of you. -Yeah, I bet he was and I bet 277 00:25:03,877 --> 00:25:06,254 I know what he would tell you right now. 278 00:25:07,547 --> 00:25:12,844 He would tell you to stay off of that wall. Do what you have to do. 279 00:25:13,887 --> 00:25:18,975 Do whatever you have to do... but stay off that wall. 280 00:25:24,481 --> 00:25:25,941 [Smoothie] One by one. 281 00:25:27,192 --> 00:25:28,652 Single file. 282 00:25:29,361 --> 00:25:31,947 Mm, delicious. 283 00:25:33,865 --> 00:25:38,119 Oh. No, no. No fattening up for you. Go, sit. 284 00:25:42,582 --> 00:25:43,708 Aren't you lucky? 285 00:25:44,584 --> 00:25:48,421 Some of us were born with refined-sugar allergies. 286 00:25:49,839 --> 00:25:53,218 No sprinkles or frosting on Christmas. 287 00:25:54,719 --> 00:25:58,431 Just hives and running sores. 288 00:26:08,858 --> 00:26:10,443 What's the matter? 289 00:26:10,527 --> 00:26:11,861 I'm not hungry. 290 00:26:12,654 --> 00:26:16,783 Mm. Perhaps you once had a piece of cake that didn't agree with you. 291 00:26:26,793 --> 00:26:29,963 Go on. Eat it! It's good. 292 00:26:34,968 --> 00:26:37,554 I don't think Happy and your dad are coming. 293 00:26:56,656 --> 00:26:59,826 Lend a helping hand, the world wipes its ass with it. 294 00:26:59,909 --> 00:27:03,038 She doesn't want my help... It's half-off-sushi Saturday 295 00:27:03,121 --> 00:27:05,790 at a very adequate strip joint not far from here. 296 00:27:05,874 --> 00:27:10,128 -I can practically smell the spicy tuna. -I guess Amanda was hard on you. 297 00:27:10,211 --> 00:27:13,923 But mommies can have bad days, too. Anybody can! 298 00:27:14,007 --> 00:27:17,385 -Pft! What's the matter with you? -What do you... [gasps] 299 00:27:17,469 --> 00:27:20,764 You didn't tell me you shed! I don't like animals that shed. 300 00:27:23,183 --> 00:27:25,560 Uh, look, I don't blame you for feeling sad. 301 00:27:25,643 --> 00:27:29,022 If I were you, I'd want to just, poof, disappear. 302 00:27:29,105 --> 00:27:31,691 -At least for a little while. -Why not forever? 303 00:27:32,317 --> 00:27:34,944 Whenever I'm feeling down I go back to basics. 304 00:27:35,028 --> 00:27:39,074 I think of ways to help Hailey! That's why I became an imaginary friend. 305 00:27:39,157 --> 00:27:44,371 The best way to forget about your problems is to do something nice for someone else. 306 00:27:44,454 --> 00:27:47,332 That's why Christmas is so awesome sauce, Nick, 307 00:27:47,415 --> 00:27:51,836 everyone full of holiday spirit and goodwill toward their fellow man. 308 00:27:51,920 --> 00:27:56,049 That holly, jolly time of year when people can pack up their troubles 309 00:27:56,132 --> 00:27:59,636 in an old doggie-poop bag and really be their truest self. 310 00:27:59,719 --> 00:28:02,305 Their true self? Really? 311 00:28:03,139 --> 00:28:05,517 -Is that what you think? -Well, yeah. 312 00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:10,480 -Good luck with that. I'm out of here. -Not so fast, Nick. 313 00:28:13,066 --> 00:28:15,443 I think someone forgot his Christmas spirit. 314 00:28:15,527 --> 00:28:18,738 -What've I told you? -Fail to prepare, you prepare to fail. 315 00:28:18,822 --> 00:28:22,700 That's right, and when I coined that phrase, it changed my life. 316 00:28:22,784 --> 00:28:27,038 God, what a year we've had, huh? So many ups and downs. 317 00:28:27,122 --> 00:28:28,748 I've never been more in love. 318 00:28:30,083 --> 00:28:31,668 No peeking! 319 00:28:32,460 --> 00:28:38,550 Aw! You see, Nick? You see? The spirit of Christmas is everywhere! 320 00:28:40,051 --> 00:28:43,680 [man] Ladies and gentlemen, we apologize for any inconvenience. 321 00:28:43,763 --> 00:28:46,766 All Queens-bound trains have been delayed indefinitely. 322 00:28:46,850 --> 00:28:50,812 -Oh, this city never disappoints. -Is a show about to start? 323 00:28:50,895 --> 00:28:52,564 Oh, yeah, you just watch. 324 00:28:53,148 --> 00:28:57,986 All it takes is a little inconvenience and then you start to see 'em. 325 00:28:58,069 --> 00:29:00,655 -See who? -Their true selves. 326 00:29:01,322 --> 00:29:05,910 Go on, Tinkerbell. Take a look, a little lap around. See how much humanity you find 327 00:29:05,994 --> 00:29:08,204 when the A train ain't running on time. 328 00:29:09,831 --> 00:29:13,001 -[man] Serious? -Eh, come on. 329 00:29:16,004 --> 00:29:18,006 [angry muttering] 330 00:29:37,108 --> 00:29:42,447 The hell do I pay taxes for? Oh, I forgot. It's up to the ass-kickers in this world 331 00:29:42,530 --> 00:29:44,741 to subsidize handouts for the deadbeats. 332 00:29:44,824 --> 00:29:47,702 -What area code's 602? -Ugh, new client. 333 00:29:48,745 --> 00:29:52,040 I didn't ask who it was. I asked what area code it is. 334 00:29:52,123 --> 00:29:54,125 -You stole it? -Gee-wiz. 335 00:29:54,209 --> 00:29:56,211 The old five-finger discount! 336 00:29:59,297 --> 00:30:02,926 Nick! Uh, what are you doing? Get off the tracks! 337 00:30:03,009 --> 00:30:06,179 Mm! [sniffs] Can you smell that? 338 00:30:06,262 --> 00:30:09,724 -[angry muttering] -All the Christmas spirit in the air? 339 00:30:10,809 --> 00:30:13,186 You could practically choke on it. 340 00:30:13,770 --> 00:30:17,232 Scratch the surface and there you have it, 341 00:30:17,315 --> 00:30:22,195 our true selves, people hiding behind their bright, 342 00:30:22,278 --> 00:30:26,783 colorful wrappings of bullshit, hoping that it will hide 343 00:30:26,866 --> 00:30:30,119 what they really are deep down inside, underneath it all... 344 00:30:31,579 --> 00:30:33,706 empty boxes of broken toys. 345 00:30:33,832 --> 00:30:36,960 [man] We apologize for any inconvenience. 346 00:30:37,043 --> 00:30:40,088 The next Queens-bound train will arrive in two minutes. 347 00:30:40,171 --> 00:30:41,631 [grunts] 348 00:30:43,341 --> 00:30:46,219 -Uh, Nick, the train is coming. -Yep. 349 00:30:46,302 --> 00:30:48,680 Yeah, so, why don't you get off the tracks? 350 00:30:48,763 --> 00:30:55,520 Nope. I'm going to teach you a lesson, my little blue bastard. 351 00:30:56,646 --> 00:30:59,983 Something you won't forget. I'm going to lie on these tracks. 352 00:31:00,066 --> 00:31:03,987 I'm going to let that train run me right over and I guarantee you, 353 00:31:04,070 --> 00:31:08,241 not one S.O.B. on that whole platform will lift a finger to help me. 354 00:31:08,324 --> 00:31:11,786 -Nick, no! -[laughs] 355 00:31:11,870 --> 00:31:14,247 Help! Help! Help! 356 00:31:16,291 --> 00:31:18,293 [grunts] Mom! 357 00:31:19,085 --> 00:31:21,462 -[Happy] Someone, help! -You drove me to it! 358 00:31:21,546 --> 00:31:24,591 -Your man whore can wait! -Dump your career in a box. 359 00:31:24,674 --> 00:31:26,843 -Merry Christmas! -[Happy] Help! Please! 360 00:31:26,926 --> 00:31:27,886 Help! 361 00:31:28,553 --> 00:31:30,388 All right, Nick, get up, you win! 362 00:31:30,471 --> 00:31:33,683 -How's it looking up there? -Awful. You made your point! 363 00:31:33,766 --> 00:31:37,896 -Not until I give these walls a paint job. -But, Nick! What about Hailey? 364 00:31:37,979 --> 00:31:42,859 Hailey. Hailey? Don't you try and put this on me! 365 00:31:43,318 --> 00:31:47,155 You were the one with her when she was kidnapped! What have you done? 366 00:31:47,238 --> 00:31:48,740 I found you. 367 00:31:48,823 --> 00:31:52,201 Yeah, well, how's that working out for you? 368 00:31:54,829 --> 00:31:58,291 You're right, Nick. This is your kind of world. 369 00:31:58,374 --> 00:32:01,836 Not a world for soft things, like me, like Hailey. 370 00:32:02,629 --> 00:32:05,798 You've opened my eyes to stuff I never wanted to see. 371 00:32:05,882 --> 00:32:07,759 But I won't watch you do this. 372 00:32:07,842 --> 00:32:10,678 If you want me to go, fine. I'll... I'll disappear. 373 00:32:10,762 --> 00:32:14,098 Music to my ears. Bye-bye. 374 00:32:14,182 --> 00:32:18,019 All right, then. [sniffles] Goodbye, partner. 375 00:32:22,857 --> 00:32:25,610 [panicked grunting and train's klaxon blares] 376 00:32:25,693 --> 00:32:28,446 [groans] 377 00:32:28,988 --> 00:32:31,157 Oh, come on, now, really? 378 00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:33,910 [grunts and train's klaxon blares] 379 00:32:36,788 --> 00:32:38,039 [grunts] 380 00:32:42,293 --> 00:32:46,214 -[man] A homeless dude had a heart attack! -[woman 1] Anyone know C.P.R.? 381 00:32:46,297 --> 00:32:47,882 [woman 2] Someone call 911! 382 00:32:47,966 --> 00:32:49,842 [inhales deeply and grunts] 383 00:32:50,718 --> 00:32:51,803 Get the hell off me. 384 00:32:51,886 --> 00:32:54,347 -[excited chattering] -[Sax groans] I... 385 00:32:54,430 --> 00:32:55,473 I'm fine, I'm fine. 386 00:32:55,556 --> 00:32:57,558 Get your hands off me, Jesus. 387 00:32:57,642 --> 00:33:00,395 -You really should be in a hospital. -Oh, shut up! 388 00:33:02,522 --> 00:33:06,401 -We saved him! It's a Christmas miracle! -[cheering] 389 00:33:23,710 --> 00:33:27,088 -[Assunta] Feel it. Isabella? -Si? 390 00:33:27,171 --> 00:33:29,090 What do you think we're doing? 391 00:33:29,173 --> 00:33:31,926 We're making Mikey's favorite meatballs and sauce, 392 00:33:32,010 --> 00:33:34,679 -just like you said. -No. 393 00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:40,226 You are a mother calling for the soul of your son. 394 00:33:41,144 --> 00:33:43,354 And how are you going to get him back? 395 00:33:44,689 --> 00:33:47,525 Here! Here! Feel it! 396 00:33:47,608 --> 00:33:49,193 -Feel it! -Okay, okay. 397 00:33:49,277 --> 00:33:50,194 Feel it! 398 00:33:53,489 --> 00:33:56,325 -Bene. Isabella? -Hmm? 399 00:33:56,409 --> 00:33:59,746 What's the most important ingredient in that sauce? 400 00:33:59,829 --> 00:34:01,247 Oh, garlic. 401 00:34:01,330 --> 00:34:06,586 No, a mother's soul, a mother's love. 402 00:34:07,170 --> 00:34:09,797 Only through a mother's love, 403 00:34:09,881 --> 00:34:16,304 the aroma of this flesh can waft to the spirit world 404 00:34:16,387 --> 00:34:20,099 and would free Mikey of his purgatories. 405 00:34:20,183 --> 00:34:25,063 That and a few drops of my menstrual blood. 406 00:34:27,231 --> 00:34:29,984 -Oh, yeah? -[gagging] 407 00:34:31,819 --> 00:34:35,239 Woo, woo, woo. Woo, woo, woo, woo. 408 00:34:36,908 --> 00:34:40,078 -[heavy breathing] -[Anna-Theresa] I threw up in my mouth. 409 00:34:53,424 --> 00:34:55,426 [distant chattering] 410 00:35:07,105 --> 00:35:08,689 [chattering on police radio] 411 00:35:14,821 --> 00:35:16,155 You told him. 412 00:35:20,701 --> 00:35:23,371 When I found Sax, he was already looking for her. 413 00:35:25,123 --> 00:35:26,958 We missed Hailey by minutes. 414 00:35:28,417 --> 00:35:31,087 He was there? With you? 415 00:35:32,713 --> 00:35:36,300 Amanda, you're going to have to lay low for a while. 416 00:35:36,843 --> 00:35:39,720 -Excuse me? -This thing, it's bigger than I thought. 417 00:35:39,804 --> 00:35:44,225 I'm not sure how deep it goes, but there are powerful people involved, 418 00:35:44,308 --> 00:35:46,018 people who will not think twice 419 00:35:46,102 --> 00:35:49,147 -about making you disappear. -Disappear? 420 00:35:50,189 --> 00:35:53,442 Without Hailey there is nothing left of me to disappear. 421 00:35:55,570 --> 00:35:57,363 [background chattering] 422 00:35:58,823 --> 00:36:03,244 It is what it is. I've already overstepped by involving you. 423 00:36:03,327 --> 00:36:07,832 So, you're asking me to do what exactly? Sit here quietly, waiting for a knock 424 00:36:07,915 --> 00:36:10,334 on my front door telling me she's dead? 425 00:36:10,418 --> 00:36:14,088 It's not easy, but seven other sets of parents are doing the exact same thing. 426 00:36:15,882 --> 00:36:18,551 Please let me handle it. 427 00:36:24,473 --> 00:36:26,851 You're not handling anything. 428 00:36:28,019 --> 00:36:29,520 You're afraid. 429 00:36:33,482 --> 00:36:36,068 I threw the wrong person out of my house. 430 00:36:37,069 --> 00:36:38,196 Amanda. 431 00:36:40,239 --> 00:36:42,283 [chattering on police radio] 432 00:36:52,668 --> 00:36:57,256 All right, come on back, Happy. Come on, Hap. 433 00:37:01,802 --> 00:37:04,639 All right, enough with the drama. Come on back. 434 00:37:04,722 --> 00:37:06,724 [woman] Bye, guys. See you tomorrow. 435 00:37:06,807 --> 00:37:08,809 [pants] 436 00:37:10,436 --> 00:37:13,898 You were right, all right? Well, you know, for the most part. 437 00:37:13,981 --> 00:37:16,567 I mean, not all people are bad. 438 00:37:16,651 --> 00:37:19,820 They're just so goddamned annoying most of the time. 439 00:37:20,321 --> 00:37:21,530 So, come on. 440 00:37:23,366 --> 00:37:25,493 Hap! Happy? 441 00:37:30,206 --> 00:37:33,209 Ah, shit. I killed my kid's imaginary friend. 442 00:37:34,627 --> 00:37:37,296 No Nutcracker for me this year. 443 00:37:38,172 --> 00:37:42,301 -Chicken and lamb combo, extra onions. -Need five minutes. 444 00:37:42,385 --> 00:37:45,972 -White sauce? Hot sauce? -Give him both. It's Christmas. 445 00:37:47,181 --> 00:37:48,182 [grunts] 446 00:37:48,266 --> 00:37:54,855 ♪ I'll have a blue Christmas ♪ 447 00:37:54,939 --> 00:37:57,024 ♪ Without you ♪ 448 00:37:58,192 --> 00:38:00,653 -♪ I'll be so blue... ♪ -Wait a minute. 449 00:38:02,405 --> 00:38:07,285 -♪Just thinking about you ♪ -That song. 450 00:38:08,077 --> 00:38:10,997 [man whistles Blue Christmas] 451 00:38:17,420 --> 00:38:21,257 -Really into Christmas, ain't you? -Happiest time of the year. 452 00:38:22,091 --> 00:38:27,888 Oh, good. You two have met. We can get right down to tomorrow night's business. 453 00:38:27,972 --> 00:38:29,974 [sniffs and snorts] 454 00:38:32,393 --> 00:38:35,563 -Yeah, no, I don't think so. -Beg your pardon? 455 00:38:35,646 --> 00:38:39,692 I ain't working with Kris Kringle. As a guideline, I prefer to work alone, 456 00:38:39,775 --> 00:38:44,447 but when an obvious total psychopath is involved... uh... no. 457 00:38:49,827 --> 00:38:51,245 Don't be silly, Nick. 458 00:38:55,291 --> 00:39:00,171 This is one of my best men. You two are going to get along like a pair of tits. 459 00:39:03,424 --> 00:39:04,717 Non-negotiable. 460 00:39:06,427 --> 00:39:11,349 Well, deck the halls with boughs of holy shit, 461 00:39:11,432 --> 00:39:13,934 I knew that asshole looked familiar! 462 00:39:16,937 --> 00:39:18,022 That means... 463 00:39:20,274 --> 00:39:21,275 Blue. 464 00:39:24,070 --> 00:39:26,072 He's been behind it the whole time. 465 00:39:28,366 --> 00:39:29,742 Blue! 466 00:39:31,535 --> 00:39:32,370 Blue? 467 00:39:33,454 --> 00:39:34,997 Mikey? 468 00:39:35,081 --> 00:39:36,791 [rubbing] 469 00:39:43,506 --> 00:39:45,883 Shit's just getting weirder and weirder. 470 00:39:45,966 --> 00:39:49,136 [music: Father Christmas, Do Not Touch Me by The Goodies]